[ATHENA] CfP HaPoC-4, Brno, 4-7 Octobre 2017

["ldemol" (liesbeth.demol AT univ-lille3.fr) <athena AT services.cnrs.fr>]

Chères collègues, chers collègues,

merci de trouver ci-dessous le deuxième appel à communication pour la 
quatrième conférence sur l'histoire et la philosophie du calcul, 
organisé par la DHST/DLMPST Commission HaPoC, de 4-7 Octobre 2017 à Brno,

bien cordialement,
Liesbeth De Mol


/Second Call for Papers/
4th International Conference on History and Philosophy of Computing
https://hapoc2017.sciencesconf.org/
Masaryk University Brno
4-7 October 2017

held under the auspices of the DHST/DLMPS Commission for the History and 
Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC) www.hapoc.org

In their societal impact, computers have grown way beyond their roots in 
mathematics and logic. Their ubiquity since the late 20th century has 
increased the number and impact of several of the original questions 
raised by early computer scientists and practitioners: questions about 
their expected and intended behaviour, as Alan Turing did when asking 
whether machines can think; questions about their ontology, as John von 
Neumann did when asking what the computer and the human brain have in 
common; questions about their role in performing human tasks, as Norbert 
Wiener did when asking whether automatic translation is possible. With 
new technologies, the need for rethinking formal and technological 
issues is crucial.

HaPoC conferences aim to bring together researchers exploring the 
various aspects of the computer from historical or philosophical 
standpoint. The series aims at an interdisciplinary focus on computing, 
rooted in historical and philosophical viewpoints. The conference brings 
together researchers interested in the historical developments of 
computing, as well as those reflecting on the sociological and 
philosophical issues springing from the rise and ubiquity of computing 
machines in the contemporary landscape.

For HaPoC 2017 we welcome contributions from logicians, philosophers and 
historians of computing as well as from philosophically aware computer 
scientists and mathematicians. We also invite contributions on the use 
of computers in art. As HaPoC conferences aim to provide a platform for 
interdisciplinary discussions among researchers, contributions 
stimulating such discussions are preferable. Topics include but are not 
limited to:

- History of computation (computational systems, machines, mechanized 
reasoning, algorithms and programs, communities of computing and their 
paradigms,...)
- Foundational issues in computer science and computability (models of 
computability, Church-Turing thesis, formal systems for distributed, 
cloud and secure computing, semantic theories of programming languages, ...)
- Philosophy of computing (computer as brain / mind, epistemological 
issues, ...), Computation in the sciences (computer experiments and 
simulations, computer-aided systems for teaching and research, ...)
- Computer and the arts (temporality in digital art; narration in 
interactive art work, speculative software, programming as a deferred 
action, computing and affect, performativity of code, eristic of HCI, ...)

We cordially invite researchers working in a field relevant to the main 
topics of the conference to submit a short abstract of approximately 200 
words and an extended abstract of at most a 1000 words (references included)

Submit through EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hapoc2017

Deadline for abstracts and extended abstracts: 15 May 2017
Notifications of acceptance: July 2016

Accepted papers will be presented in 30 minute slots including 
discussion. Abstracts must be written in English. Please note that the 
format of uploaded files must be in .pdf. Submissions without extended 
abstract will not be considered.

The HaPoC commission will also provide some travel grants of up to 400 
EUR. Preference will be given to young researchers. The deadline for 
application is *August 15, 2017*. For more details, 
see:https://hapoc2017.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/12

Conference fee: EUR 150, including welcome reception and conference dinner.

The conference will be preceded by a special workshop on the reception 
of Hilbert's axiomatic method in Eastern Europe on 3 October 2017, 
organized by Mate Szabó (see the link in the left column for more 
details). Accompanying cultural programme will include: the remake of 
the 1968 Brno exhibition Computer Graphic (featuring Frieder Nake and 
others), the first computer art exhibition in Eastern Europe, preceding 
Cybernetic Serendipity by several months, Live coding performance 
(inspired by the Exhibition Computer Graphic), the concert Exposition of 
New Music (contemporary music), and field recordings of Brno (student 
project).